Chapter 129: Presenting Evidence

“When did this happen, and who is Lu Xingzhou?”

Mrs. Sheng had also received the news that her daughter had been stabbed. She rushed back from her best friend’s house and saw a very strange scene.

Lu Xingzhou was sitting in the tea room, facing Sheng Qingfeng, brewing tea, but neither of them said a word.

Because there was a chair to sit on, the wheelchair was free. So, the wheelchair was snatched by Sheng Yuan Yao. She sat on it and ordered A Nuo to push her around the house, claiming she couldn't walk because she was injured. In reality, she just wanted to experience Lu Xingzhou’s wheelchair and the person pushing it. Who knows what she was thinking?

Sheng Yuan Yao was happy, but when Mrs. Sheng first saw her daughter sitting in a wheelchair being swayed around by a child, she thought her daughter's leg was crippled and was so scared she almost cried on the spot.

Seeing her husband still with an indifferent expression brewing tea with a young man, she got angry and went straight in, grabbed Sheng Qingfeng’s ear, and pulled him out: “Our daughter’s leg is crippled, and you’re still so leisurely! How can you be a father!”

Sheng Qingfeng used good words and bad words just to convince his wife that their daughter was only slightly injured. Then the topic turned to Lu Xingzhou.

“Yes, that’s Lu Xingzhou.” Sheng Qingfeng’s face was black: “What do you want to say?”

“What exactly is the relationship between Yao’er and him? How did you bring him home…”

“Lu Xingzhou is a decent alchemist. He came to treat her injury.”

“We can call out and get seventeen or eighteen high-grade alchemists who could be Lu Xingzhou’s masters. Why did you call him, a single man, to treat her injury in a one-on-one situation?” Mrs. Sheng rolled her eyes: “Stop with that line. Tell me the truth.”

“The truth is even I don’t know what Yao’er is thinking.” Sheng Qingfeng said angrily: “Look, she even brought a child! She’s not even married yet and already has to be a mother.”

Mrs. Sheng's eyebrows lifted and her expression brightened: “Don’t say that, that little girl is really cute!”

Sheng Qingfeng: “?”

Mrs. Sheng also realized her focus seemed a bit off and quickly said: “So, is that matter between him and the princess real?”

“I don’t know. That was also something Yuan Yao herself said. Heaven knows if the silly things in a little girl’s head can be taken seriously? Maybe you should go ask carefully again? I also probed Lu Xingzhou a bit. We’ll act separately.”

The husband and wife treated this as a major enemy task and assigned work. Sheng Qingfeng, full of solemnity, returned to the tea room. Lu Xingzhou was just brewing tea and dividing the cups, his movements elegant, his demeanor calm.

Sheng Qingfeng’s boisterous movements were all brought to a refined three points. He cleared his throat and sat back in the main seat: “My wife was anxious about our daughter, her words and actions were improper. I hope you’ll forgive her.”

Lu Xingzhou gave him a cup of tea and said in a low voice: “I really envy Miss Sheng.”

Sheng Qingfeng was startled for a moment, then remembered that if this young man was Huo Shang, his mother had passed away when he was a child.

“So…” he carefully asked: “You staying here is actually because you want to talk to me about the Huo family?”

Damn it, I thought you wanted to talk to me about Yuan Yao’s marriage problem!

Lu Xingzhou said: “Also about Ye Wufeng… I feel that the probability of the Huo family and Ye Wufeng colluding to deal with me is very high. They will each want to blame the other, forming a kind of cooperation with ulterior motives. If we respond well, not only can we successfully capture Ye Wufeng, but we can also let the Huo family suffer another setback.”

It was clearly a very meaningful topic, but Sheng Qingfeng didn’t know why he felt so uncomfortable all over. He felt it shouldn’t be like this…

He lowered his head and sipped the hot tea, slowly calming his heart a little. Then he lightly said: “Whether the Huo family suffers or not is unrelated to me.”

Lu Xingzhou said: “Uncle, you deal with Ye Wufeng, I’ll deal with the Huo family. It’s similarly a situation where each gets what they need.”

“According to what I know, the Huo family was still trying to reconcile with you this morning.”

“That’s their wishful thinking.”

Sheng Qingfeng said without a trace: “Can I understand your words to mean that if I don’t deal with the Huo family, you also won’t deal with Ye Wufeng?”

“Even if Uncle is still unwilling to get involved in the Huo family’s affairs, Ye Wufeng dared to hurt Miss Sheng, so I won’t let him off easily.”

“If the Demon Suppression Department doesn’t act, I don’t see what ability you have to deal with Ye Wufeng alone. This kind of boasting is meaningless.”

Lu Xingzhou just smiled and didn’t say anything more.

“Ye Wufeng’s matter is now a big case for the Demon Suppression Department. It doesn’t need outsiders to intervene. Your matter with the Huo family is even less related to this.” Sheng Qingfeng said lightly: “So if you’re just going to talk about these things, there’s no need to chat.”

Lu Xingzhou was very polite: “Okay. Then what does Uncle want to chat about?”

Sheng Qingfeng wanted to speak but hesitated.

Damn it, don’t you know what I want to chat about?

He hesitated for a long time, and finally sighed: “Yao’er has no brothers or sisters. She’s our only child. Since childhood, she was raised like a boy, so her temperament is inevitably a bit mischievous. But we won’t therefore have any idea of having a son-in-law who lives with the family… Sheng has always thought that Yuan Yao is very excellent and deserves a good husband. If she were to marry into a family for the sake of carrying on the lineage, it would be unfair to Yuan Yao.”

Lu Xingzhou nodded: “Uncle is enlightened and is truly good to Miss Sheng.”

“So although we worry about her lifelong happiness, we are never willing to force her to choose someone she doesn’t like. We’ve arranged blind dates so many times. If she says she looks down on someone, then she looks down on them.” Sheng Qingfeng sighed: “The reason we are anxious is mainly because of her age. In this world, many women marry at sixteen, and many are engaged at fourteen. Yuan Yao is already twenty this year… She feels nothing now, but once she gets older, no good family will look at her. She can only increasingly settle for less, and where will happiness come from then?”

Lu Xingzhou said carefully: “What do you mean by saying these things to me, Uncle?”

“Firstly, as a friend, you can help advise Yuan Yao.” Sheng Qingfeng observed Lu Xingzhou’s expression, secretly thinking, if you two have a private affair, wouldn’t you explode if I say this?

As expected, Lu Xingzhou immediately said: “Actually, Uncle is mistaken.”

Sheng Qingfeng chuckled inwardly and said lightly: “What do you mean by that?”

“Uncle said that is for ordinary secular women. But Miss Sheng is a cultivator, with a long lifespan. Even the imperial family is not in a hurry to discuss the marriage of Princess Chao Huang, precisely because Princess Chao Huang is talented. Once she breaks through to the third rank, even at seventy or eighty, she will still look like a young girl. Discussing marriage then would be too insignificant…”

Sheng Qingfeng said angrily: “You also know that you need to break through to the third rank? I broke through to the third rank when I was almost forty. So do you think I look like a young man?”

Lu Xingzhou flattered: “Uncle is very young, very young…”

“Stop with that.” Sheng Qingfeng said: “Yuan Yao may not compare to Princess Chao Huang’s talent. Even if she can break through to the third rank, she should be a mature woman, half old. Will she still marry in this lifetime?”

Lu Xingzhou forced himself to say: “That may not be certain… Perhaps soon…”

Sheng Qingfeng glared.

Lu Xingzhou quickly changed the topic: “Uncle said this is the first point, what about the second?”

“Secondly, we are also worried that she will find someone blindly herself. We are both unwilling for her to be excessively involved in political vortexes, and we are also worried that she will be deceived by sweet words. For the blind dates in our eyes, we can still help check. If we let her find someone blindly herself, and she finds something that delays her whole life, she may regret it later.”

Lu Xingzhou lowered his head and drank tea.

Sheng Qingfeng said lightly: “So your identity with the Huo family…”

“Wait…” Lu Xingzhou said helplessly: “Firstly, the Huo family matter is in the process of being resolved.”

Sheng Qingfeng: “Hehe.”

He’s still quite anxious… We haven’t mentioned your princess paramour identity yet.

But then he heard Lu Xingzhou continue: “Secondly… Uncle is really overthinking. Miss Sheng and I are truly just bosom friends. There is absolutely no covetous heart. Uncle can rest assured.”

“I really have no relationship with Lu Xingzhou. My relationship with A Nuo is closer than with him!” At the same time, Sheng Yuan Yao was also saying the same thing to her mother.

Sheng Qingfeng and his wife said in unison: “Remember this testimony you’ve given in court. If you go back on it later, you two will have a tough time.”

Actually, they didn't need to go back on it later.

Just at lunchtime, the Sheng family couple always felt that something was wrong everywhere.

Sheng Yuan Yao sat beside Lu Xingzhou, smiling and squinting her eyes. She quietly poked his arm with her finger: “What did Old Sheng just say to you?”

Lu Xingzhou then replied in a low voice: “He said how difficult it was to raise his cabbage.”

“Tch.” Sheng Yuan Yao said in a low voice: “Isn’t there something wrong with parents saying these things? That year, when they sent me to the Demon Suppression Department martial hall for further study, their eyes were green with anxiety, just afraid that I would be abducted by some little brat. As a result, I graduated and haven’t even started working yet, and they’re already anxiously looking for in-laws for me. Was all that guarding before just a fart that dropped his pants?”

Lu Xingzhou couldn’t help but laugh.

“This time is also funny. On one hand, they ask me to go on blind dates, and on the other hand, they guard strictly. Isn’t there a problem?” Sheng Yuan Yao said, disdainfully glancing at Lu Xingzhou: “Tell me, what is it about you that’s worth me looking at? Is it looking at you and Shen Tang not talking loud enough in the carriage? Or is it looking at you having a personal maid just a few days after going out?”

Lu Xingzhou said in a low voice: “Hey, save me some face. Your dad’s cultivation is so high, he can hear.”

Sheng Yuan Yao quickly looked up at her dad and mom, then lowered her head to eat.

The Sheng family couple’s faces were always black, and they had no appetite.

Not to mention the sight of the young couple whispering face to face, just considering the other young talents who had come to eat at home before, Sheng Yuan Yao’s face was as stiff as if others owed her eight million. When had she ever had such intimate whispers? Looking at that appearance, she seemed incredibly happy to have Lu Xingzhou come home to eat and chat and laugh with her parents.

No matter how much she said she was disdainful, it was useless. Do you really know what your own heart is thinking?

But then again, she felt that these two were really quite compatible, and her daughter and he got along intimately and naturally… If they really liked each other, perhaps they could consider…

The husband and wife inadvertently glanced at each other, their minds a bit messy.

Originally, Lu Xingzhou’s stay at the Sheng family was indeed planned to discuss the problems of the Huo family and Ye Wufeng. Seeing that Sheng Qingfeng didn’t want to cooperate, he also gave up. After finishing the meal, he politely took his leave.

Sheng Yuan Yao, who had been full of energy, turned into a sickly expression after sending off Master Lu Xingzhou and his disciple: “I’m injured, I want to rest. Don’t bother me…”

“Someone’s face wasn’t hanging down when a certain person was here.” Mrs. Sheng gritted her teeth, stretched out a finger, and pointed at her daughter’s head: “This old lady is worried about your injury, you heartless child!”

“Tch, no.” Sheng Yuan Yao lay on the bed, covering her head with a pillow: “Go out, go out. I want to rest.”

She genuinely felt that neither she nor Lu Xingzhou had that kind of feeling…

But she didn’t know why, when the room quieted down and the side noise stopped, the scene of Lu Xingzhou descending like a god and holding her open at the critical moment of peril kept appearing in her mind.

Then it turned into rolling around in an embrace, finally fixing on him pressing down on her body, his breath brushing against her face, making her feel numb and itchy, just like the wound on her back.

The wound would heal easily… But would this kind of memory that easily made her heart pound quickly disappear?

PS: Begging